FIRST TIME HEARING | Dimash Qudaibergen | Stranger (Live at New Wave 2021) #musicreation

You crown a stranger in a stranger's land. Hi, I'm Brad. I'm John. Of the many things that Dimash Kudaibergen has done, one of the most notable is SOS. Well, we've already reacted to that one. One of the other ones, however, is It Was. In fact, actually, the one that we reacted to was him and the cellist. It was a slightly different variation on it, because he did a duet of SOS with the cellist playing one of the parts. I can't remember the name of the cellist. Anyway, supposedly he's actually done a similar version with this song as well, which is Stranger. We're not doing that, though, because I didn't find it. We are, however, doing a live version. So this was live at New Wave in 2021, which I'm pretty sure is actually when Stranger was released at some point in 2021, if I remember correctly. Anyway, so Stranger is about finding identity and strengthening. That was unexpected. Strengthening new beginnings, reflecting themes of impermanence, loss, and rebirth, often tied to journeys and migration. This version features a blend of modern pop and traditional Kazakh instruments. You actually get to see a couple of those on the stage. It was another collaboration. He's done several writing-wise between Dimash and Igor Krutoy. I think I didn't butcher his name too badly. A lot of their stuff is collaborated on, or a lot of Dimash's songs are collaborations between him and Igor. I'm pretty sure Igor is the one who's actually playing the piano in this. I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure when I was splitting the video up, I saw him playing the piano. Someone actually said in... What was the last one? The fire? How did he do a fire? Is that what that was on? Yes. Someone said that he was running a hunter for temperature. Yeah, on one of the evenings. Because I guess it was like... He did two performances one night. Well, one performance one night and one performance the other night. The fire video was basically a mash-up of the two completely different performances. Because if you're going to do the same show twice, you might as well do two completely different performances. So I guess one was from one tour and one was from a different tour. Then he was doing it when he was sick. Yeah, and then he's doing it when he's healthier. All right. Before we check this one out, make sure you hit that like and subscribe. Let me find the video in all the windows. There we go. Okay. Right. I shall play. It's like a pause in there because it seemed like a good spot. One, that obviously traditional instrument. One of them. Sounds very haunting. It's probably part of the way they were, you know, microphoning it and stuff, I'm sure. It sounded really haunting at the beginning. Two, why didn't they give them planeless candles? It's like almost every single one is basically having to shield the candle so it doesn't blow out. Maybe that's part of the aesthetic that they were going for. It's just, unless they have to blow the students out at some point, it's kind of... Yeah, but they could also... Planeless. Well, yeah, still, they wouldn't have to be... Right, yeah. I mean, the person in the back there's got his hand down on that person. I'm moving, so I have to stick my hand so it doesn't blow out. There's always a critic. Yes. Oh, wow. You crawl underneath my feet Stranger in a stranger's land No chance to know who I am If I had the strength to begin again YouTube. Yes. I'm pretty sure that is who it is. They make a point of showing it every single time. Gotta get paid somehow. I've forgotten, I really like this song because, especially for a live performance, so much of Dimash's stuff, he spends a lot of time in, well, as Gabriel would say, he spends a lot of time in his upper registers, because people love that. Me, however, I love it when he starts going downstairs. And this actually has nice... Too short, but it has a nice bass singing section in it, which we just passed through. And it's kind of like, oh yeah, I mean, you end up almost forgetting, because so many of his songs do seem to be kind of normal to upper register, that it's kind of like, yeah, he can go down just as far as he can go up. So he's got this real great bass singing voice that, from the stuff that we've reacted to, you can comment down below going, oh, here's a great song where he sings entirely in bass. Please do. But yeah, it seems like he spends a lot more time upstairs than downstairs, so to speak. And breathe. Yes. Yeah. Definitely knows how to hold them. Yep. If you could. That was very impressive. Yeah, it is. Yeah. That's the thing. A lot of the, you know, Dimash-Igor collaboration stuff, it is written to, to really kind of take advantage of his voice and pretty much show it off as much as possible. I mean, you might as well. Right. But yeah, it's a lot of their stuff, their collaboration stuff, it really does just show off the, Dimash's range and capabilities. Right. With his voice. Yeah. Which is, frankly, incredible. Yeah. Yeah, that was very impressive. I also noticed he also did the other thing that he has a tendency to do in live performances. Beyond singing with his hands, which is something else he has in common with Gabriel and Mika, they both sing with their hands. We've got a little group of people that we react to that sing with their hands. I used to talk with my hands all the time, but not nobody so much anymore. I still kind of do. But yeah, halfway through the song, he obviously got tired of the, hard saying what they have, some people use like a metronome beat on the in-ear thing to make sure they stay in time with the band and everybody else. But I've noticed a lot of times in his live performances, he'll get about halfway through a song and then by that point just flip them both out because I don't know if they just annoy him or it's kind of like, you time yourselves to me. But yeah, it's kind of like, I've noticed that in a lot of his live performances that it seems like about halfway through every song it's kind of like, it's like stop talking. I thought it was great. It was. And I didn't see what happened to the candles because they didn't appear to have them at the end. Oh, well yeah, because he walked down under the catwalk thing. Then I stopped paying attention. But yeah, when they kind of like, kind of like focused back in, you know, with all of them behind them, it didn't look like they still had the candles. So I don't know what ended up happening. Those lost track of them, I think. Yeah, they know, so we'll have to rewind. Yeah, we'll have to rewind after the fact and see if we can find them. Well, we're definitely going to continue hitting them up. So if you want to see those, make sure you hit that like and subscribe. Comment suggestions down below, especially if you know songs where he sings mostly bass. And if you hit the notification bell on YouTube, we'll think about telling you when we do. And until then, thanks for watching.